Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-05-14

hundred houses were burned and four lives were lost st RustbRrg church, Thirty houses were destroyed and many houses were also burned at the vil- lageof MeregiOi iAtEprys all the churches and public buildings were destroyed, and the cemetery was devastated, It IS estimated that the total loss will reach 2.5O0,OO0 marks.
 CHICAGO, May 9.-A special from New Orleans says that the Mount Zion Bap tist church (colOred) has been in tbe habit or osptslng converts ID the Miss. issippl river. Yesterday while bsptis- nal ceremonies were being performed the railing of the wharf on which they were conducted gave away, and fully fifty people were precipitsted into the water. Seven were known to be drowned and it is belIeved that from five to eight more perished.
 SAN FRIScIsCo, May 7.-The Calls Gusymas, Mex. special tonight, says; The earthquake of the 3rd inst started terrible volcanic eruption at Bsvispe destroying Montezums, killing 150 per sons and igniting the woods; also twenty persons were killed at Oputoby, by the falling of buildings. Many persons were injured at Granada and Gusabar which towns were almost completely destroyed.
 VIRsISIk, May 7.-An autopsy was held today over the body of Jennie Woodworth, the suspicious circumstan- ces of whose death were mentioned yes terdsy. The physicians decided that death resulted from pneumOnis. and not from cruel beating. although the body and head were severely bruised in many places, Hitohlns. who was arrested for causing the woman's death, IS still in custody, and will be examined on a charge of murder next Monday, when. 1t is alleged by the officers, ample evid- ence of his brutal treatment of the de- ceased will be produced.
 NEW YoEK. May 7.-R. K. Fox has deposited SlOO0 forfeit ,o match Jake Kilrsin against John l.. Sullivan with gloves for s5OO0 a side, and the cham pionship hesvy-weieht diamond belt, the contest to take place near Baltimore or Pittsburg within six months. Ifnot accepted within two weeks kitrsin will claim the belt.
 The great ocean race, on which sever Al thousand dollars has been wsgered arranged between the fast clipper ships Seminole 15OO tons ). of the California Dispatch line, and Chsrmer 1890 tons ], of New York and California hne, begin on Tuesday next and will be from New York around Cape Horn to San Francisco,
 WAsHISGroS, May S.-The Depart ment of State has informed the Treasu- " Department ths. a state of war exists Al Al.,Eo1a been established on its coast, from Am plyls to a point opposite the Islands of Dutucia, Custom officers have been In- structed to give notice of a blockade to all parties in the shipment of goods to Abyssinis-
 PARIS, May 7.-The Sieole denies the statement. published in Le Paris, that 6 defenIsve alliance has been concluded between France and other powers. An ofic'al denial is also imminent
 WAsHISGroN. May 7.-Chas. D. Stone of San Francisco, has been awarded 6 number of contracts by the Indian Bureau. One is for 600 head of heiiers for the San Carlos Agency, Arizona, at SIS. % per head; another for barley and beef for the Nevada agency; third for supplying over 25O. 900 pounds of flour Co the San Carlos. Colorado River Schools and Yuma River agencies, as well as a contract for transportation for supplies from various points tO the In dian agencies on the Pacific Coast, He has thus far received the biggest con tract of this kind. He will transport all supplies from eight distributing centers to as many Rs sixteen different points.
 SAN FRASCIsCo, May 1.-Two strikes began here to-day, one st the Phlladel- phia Brewery, where Union men went out because the non-UniOn employees were not discharged. Their places were promptly filed by nOn-U Union men, about thirty five in number. The Brewers Protective Association, comprised of all brewery proprietors in this city, at a meeting held this afternoon, declared a lockout against sll Union men, Co go into effsct imm Sdiately.
 The other strike was by bakers, caused by the refusal of proprietOrs of bakeries to shorten the hours of employ ment and discharge non-unlon men. Most of the employees had compiled with these demands, and the strikers number only about forty men.
 All the Union men, numbering about twO-hundred, employed Tn all the brew cries of the city, were discharged to- night.
 ALRUoUERQUE, May 7-OwIng tO a telegraph embargo the particulars of the serious accident on Wednesday on the Atlantic and Pacific road. forty miles east of Dsggett, have just reached here. The eastbound passenger tram, three hours behind time, rushing across the desert at the rate of forty miles an hour. ran into an arroyo over a bridge, which had been burned, leaving the rails, The engine went over, but the Jar threw the fireman out of the cab, and the tender went into a shallow arroyo, form ing a barricsde against which the other ears ran with terrific force. The mall oar turned completely around, standing ] across the track, the baggage and eX- press car were thrown twenty feet from the track to the right and turned over | two passenger cars and derailed two Pullman cars that remained on the trnck. A scene of frighttul consterna- ton ensued, no one believing the pas sengers in the overturned cars could | escape desth. Bremen Charles Smith was picked up unconscious, leg broken | and spine injured and internal injuries. ' He is not expected to recover. Among | the injured passengers extracted from | the wrecked cars were the following: It has been ssoertained that Mir. Schneider, of Wslls Wslla, W. T.. received con | tused head and Q terrible scalp wound, m which the surgeon took thirty-twO stitches; Henry O. Hansen received a | cut and WAS bruised about the bead, F, | Thornton. confused: A. F. Sells, a broken leg. George Beard, leg mashed; F. Edwsrds. fractured arm; Mrs. McAlil- Ian. sn aged lady, spinal column in!ur- ed; P. J. Green, mail agent, shoulders l dislOcsted.
 DETROIT. MICH. May IA few weeks SEQ. when the stove moulders through cut the country quit work, because they
 were ordered to work on patterns of a St. Louis firm, whose men had struck for sn advance in wages, the men ID this city remained al work; 1t was claimed by the moulders that manufacturers had
 scheIned for strike ID order to raise the
 prices and have the blame thrown on
 the men. On Wednesday of this week
 the Manutscturers' Defense Association
 held & secret meeting in this city. and
 today. in obedience Co orders prOmul-
 gated st that time. the Michigan, Det-
 roit. and Peninsula stove companies shut